Complementary and alternative medicine in chronic pain
Frank H Lee1, Srinivasa N Raja
1Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Pain
|October 12, 2010
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